Experience

Hokkaido University

• Japan
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Masters Student

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  Master's 1st year student under the Division of Field Engineering for the Environment.

• Student Researcher

  • Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

  Under the supervision of Tomohito Yamada, working as a research student at the Laboratory of Watershed and River Engineering for:maximizing accuracy of flood prevention modelsatmospheric modelinghydrological cycle elucidationglobal climate modelsdynamically downscaling of climate modelsphysics informed neural networks for sparse and rich datasetsGIS methods and Lidar for more accurate climate modelsclimate modeling of Hokkaido, Kushiro marsh agricultural output optimization through GIS and IRiC softwareCurrently undecided for main research theme, but studying as much as I can to be useful to Yamada Sensei and his research team,



Revive Amatitlán

• Lead Research Scientist

  • May 2019 - Oct 2022

  - Reduce 90% of Lake Amatitlán’s pollution in-situ within one government term by lysis from cavitation of micro/nanobubbles.- Optimize creation of methane at >80% efficiency from sludge and dead cyanobacteria through methanogenic archea.- Quantify hydrodynamic cavitation, an open problem in the industry, using in-house sensors. - Investigate pathways of biodegrading microplastics on water into methane in-situ.- Investigate joint use of AI/ML and Bayesian algorithms to optimize lake cleanup, methanogenesis, and electricity conversion.- Disprove AMSA, a corrupt Guatemalan gov’t institution in charge of Lake Amatitlán, through publishing a high-level environmental impact study on Elsevier’s EIA Review of our pilot project.



Universidad del Valle de Guatemala campus Altiplano

• Guatemala
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Professor of Physics

  • Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

  - Teach introductory physics to non-physics majors- Research on efficient decontamination methods for Lake Amatitlan and Lake Atitlan (Centros de Estudios Altiplano)- Research on freshwater decontamination projects with limited government involvement as a way to deal with lack of institutional memory in the Guatemalan government - Teach introductory physics to non-physics majors- Research on efficient decontamination methods for Lake Amatitlan and Lake Atitlan (Centros de Estudios Altiplano)- Research on freshwater decontamination projects with limited government involvement as a way to deal with lack of institutional memory in the Guatemalan government



HBar

• Chief Scientist

  • Feb 2019 - May 2019

  Developed project proposals for analyzing and decontaminating Guatemalan freshwater sources in the context of governments with limited institutional memory. Developed project proposals for analyzing and decontaminating Guatemalan freshwater sources in the context of governments with limited institutional memory.



Revive Amatitlan

• Assistant Program Coordinator

  • Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

  Quantify possible ROI range of USD $50-500 million from in-situ methanogenesis using theoretical models, experimental data, and taking into account the variability of price of methane over time. Proposed the use of a homemade Raman Spectrometer for fast, detailed water quality analysis, decreasing costs from commercial models by 80-85%.

• Programmer

  • Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

  Remotely helped a volunteering team with scheduling and deadline of first pilot project launched in November 2016 in Playa de Oro.Made a market analysis in viability of a circular plastic recycling industry in the Lake Amatitlan region.



Adams Thermal Systems

• Programmer

  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2018

  - Developed algorithms to increase functionality to Real-time Production Management (RPM) system.- Implemented feature that unpacks containers, speeding up RPM container unpacking by >40%.- Developed MySQL GUI-driven query builder using JavaScript and PHP PDO.- Supported Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions.- Solved failed EDI orders amounting to a cumulative total of >$88,000. - Developed algorithms to increase functionality to Real-time Production Management (RPM) system.- Implemented feature that unpacks containers, speeding up RPM container unpacking by >40%.- Developed MySQL GUI-driven query builder using JavaScript and PHP PDO.- Supported Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions.- Solved failed EDI orders amounting to a cumulative total of >$88,000.



Augustana University (SD)

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Resident Advisor

  • Aug 2016 - May 2017

  1. Supported student's safety by providing a safer and more secure environment. 2. Created monthly active/passive programs with floor residents for networking and social activities.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  1. Improved the detection of energy peaks in single-track and double-track photon reconstruction of pi0s on the MPC-EX at PHENIX, Brookhaven National Laboratory through ROOT and C++ algorithms.2. Developed C++ macros for reconstructing simulated pi0 decays at intermediate energies (<200 GeV)in the Muon Piston Calorimeter Extension (MPC-EX) detector, located at Brookhaven National Lab-oratory's Relativistic High Energy Collider (RHIC).3. Implemented advanced mathematical methods, such as Lagrange polynomials, to analyze pi0 decays.4. Optimized the efficiency of pi0 reconstruction by 15-55% using different data cuts.5. Interpreted research findings to individuals working in the Pioneering High Energy Experiment (PHENIX) collaboration.



Augustana University (SD)

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Undergraduate Research

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  1. Assisted with MPC-EX energy calibration through pi0 Minimum Ionizing Particle (MIP) peak finding algorithm. Algorithm was first tested on pi0 PYTHIA simulations and then run on data.2. Worked with a team of four people to develop a PostgreSQL database for testing over 400 MPC-EXmicromodule sensors.3. Analyzed pi0 decay data to calibrate the MPC-EX detector.4. Developed C++ algorithms for data analysis. 1. Assisted with MPC-EX energy calibration through pi0 Minimum Ionizing Particle (MIP) peak finding algorithm. Algorithm was first tested on pi0 PYTHIA simulations and then run on data.2. Worked with a team of four people to develop a PostgreSQL database for testing over 400 MPC-EXmicromodule sensors.3. Analyzed pi0 decay data to calibrate the MPC-EX detector.4. Developed C++ algorithms for data analysis.